A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

Look to her Creation; she was made after Man, he has some honour by his seniority, 1 Tim. 2.13. For Adam was first formed, then Eve, She was made out of Man: he was the rock whence she was hewen. 1 Cor. 11.8. For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. She was ⟨p. 378⟩made for man, 1 Cor. 11.9. Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man. So that it is not Man, that hath set this Order, but God himself. Look again to the Fall, and there you hear what God saith, Gen. 3.16. Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. See in the New Testament, lest Christ his being made of a woman should seem to alter this inviolable Law. Coloss. 3.18. Wives submit your selves to your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. 1 Pet. 3.1. Likewise ye wives be in subjection to your own Husbands. Ver. 2. your chaste conversation must be coupled with fear. Ver. 5. The holy women of old adorned themselves with this subjection to their own husbands: and so in my Text. Let her be never so great, never so good; and though her husband be never so mean, and never so bad: yet this is her indispensable Duty, to reverence her husband. And this Principle must first be sixth in her heart, that she is an⁽ⁿ⁾ Inferior, that her husband is a degree above her; that it is neither agreeable to nature or decency to set the head below, or no higher than the Rib. And when she is resolved in this, than will she with much delight and ease go through her Duty. A wise God hath ordered it thus, and therefore it is best.

Look to her Creation; she was made after Man, he has some honour by his seniority,